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Published: 
July 2015
Page Count: 
296
ISBN (Digital): 
978-1-4533-7227-2

The Flat World Knowledge Thematic Reader for Writers

Version 1.0
By Miles McCrimmon

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This textbook is suitable for the following courses: First-Year College Composition & Rhetoric; First-Year Experience Seminar; Learning Communities pairing College Composition with other intro-level courses across the disciplines; Dual Enrollment College Composition Courses Taught in High School.

The FlatWorld Thematic Reader for Writers is a fully curated collection featuring the apparatus of a traditional reader (introductory headnotes, questions before and after readings, assignment sequences, thematically and rhetorically arranged chapters). Students will finish the course with the ability to explore a variety of subjects in more detail.

  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Preface

    • Chapter 1: Education—Teaching and Learning

  • 1.1 Teaching and Learning
  • 1.2 “America at School” (1894–1915)
  • 1.3 The New England Primer Improved (1828)
  • 1.4 The First Year Book: Teacher’s Edition (1914)
  • 1.5 Decennial Census Data on Educational Attainment (1940–2000)
  • 1.6 My Pedagogic Creed (1897)
  • 1.7 Commencement Address at American University (1963)
  • 1.8 “Student Commencement Speech” (1969)
  • 1.9 “The Wilderness of Your Intuition” (1980)
  • 1.10 “Find What You Love” (2005)
  • 1.11 “Real Freedom?” (2005)
  • 1.12 “Your Money or Your Life” (2008)
  • 1.13 Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever (1996)
  • 1.14 “Character Education: An Historical Overview” (2009)
  • 1.15 “National Address to America’s Schoolchildren” (2009)
  • 1.16 Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (2010)
  • 1.17 Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (2011)
  • 1.18 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Education
  • 1.19 References

    • Chapter 2: Work—Earning and Keeping

  • 2.1 Earning and Keeping
  • 2.2 “The Way to Wealth” (1758)
  • 2.3 Part Two from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1784)
  • 2.4 “Wealth” (1889)
  • 2.5 “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)
  • 2.6 From Ragged Dick (1867)
  • 2.7 “America at Work” (1894–1915)
  • 2.8 “Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives” (1935–1944)
  • 2.9 WPA Posters (1936–1943)
  • 2.10 “Radio Address Unveiling the Second Half of the New Deal” (1936)
  • 2.11 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Work

    • Chapter 3: Politics—Leading and Following

  • 3.1 Leading and Following
  • 3.2 “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (1775)
  • 3.3 The Declaration of Independence (1776)
  • 3.4 Gettysburg Address (1863)
  • 3.5 “Farewell Address” (1961)
  • 3.6 “Inaugural Address” (1961)
  • 3.7 “The Great Society” (1964)
  • 3.8 “The Crisis of Confidence” (1979)
  • 3.9 “Address on the Space Shuttle Challenger” (1986)
  • 3.10 “Remarks by the President during ‘A Time of Healing’ Prayer Service” (1995)
  • 3.11 “Address to Joint Session of Congress: September 20, 2001”
  • 3.12 “A More Perfect Union” (2008)
  • 3.13 Excerpts from the First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate (1960)
  • 3.14 Excerpts from the First Reagan-Mondale Presidential Debate (1984)
  • 3.15 Excerpts from the First Obama-McCain Presidential Debate (2008)
  • 3.16 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Politics

    • Chapter 4: Identity—Being and Becoming

  • 4.1 Being and Becoming
  • 4.2 From Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
  • 4.3 “Petition” (1777)
  • 4.4 “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
  • 4.5 “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)
  • 4.6 From The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
  • 4.7 “The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” (1848)
  • 4.8 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  • 4.9 “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
  • 4.10 “The Story of an Hour” (1894)
  • 4.11 “Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints” (1861–1865)
  • 4.12 “Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Photographs” (1861–1865)
  • 4.13 “The Four Freedoms” (1941)
  • 4.14 “Executive Order 9066” (1942)
  • 4.15 “Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese Internment at Manzanar” (1943)
  • 4.16 “After the Day of Infamy: ‘Man-on-the-Street’ Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor” (1941)
  • 4.17 “World War II Poster Collection” (1941–1945)
  • 4.18 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
  • 4.19 Selections from “September 11 Television Archive”
  • 4.20 “Featured Drawings” (2001)
  • 4.21 Interviews from the “September 11, 2001, Documentary Project” (2001)
  • 4.22 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Identity

    • Chapter 5: Commerce—Getting and Spending

  • 5.1 Getting and Spending
  • 5.2 From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  • 5.3 From The Communist Manifesto (1848)
  • 5.4 Selections from “Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850–1920”
  • 5.5 “Selected Classic TV Commercials from the Prelinger Archives” (1950s–1960s)
  • 5.6 “Barnum and Bailey and Adolph Friedlander Circus Posters” (1900)
  • 5.7 Selections from “Popular Graphic Arts”
  • 5.8 “Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy” (1921–1929)
  • 5.9 “What’s Your Consumption Factor?” (2008)
  • 5.10 Selected Political Advertisements from the 1960 Presidential Campaign
  • 5.11 Selected Political Advertisements from the 1984 Presidential Campaign
  • 5.12 Selected Political Advertisements from the 2008 Presidential Campaign
  • 5.13 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Commerce

    • Chapter 6: Technology—Crafting and Connecting

  • 6.1 Crafting and Connecting
  • 6.2 “The Mouse’s Petition, found in the trap where he had been confin’d all Night” (1773)
  • 6.3 From Frankenstein (1818)
  • 6.4 “The Birthmark” (1844)
  • 6.5 From Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 (1887)
  • 6.6 From “In the Year 2889” (1889)
  • 6.7 From The Time Machine (1898)
  • 6.8 “Youth” (1952)
  • 6.9 Selected Patents (1838–1905)
  • 6.10 “Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies” (1891–1918)
  • 6.11 “The Belief That Flight Is Possible to Man” (1900)
  • 6.12 “Wright Brothers Negatives” (1903)
  • 6.13 “Three Special Events in the History of Technology for Creating, Organizing, and Sharing Information” (2006)
  • 6.14 “Technology Marches On” (2011)
  • 6.15 Further Reading and Writing Projects on Technology
  • 6.16 References

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    Miles McCrimmon J Sargeant Reynolds Community College

    Miles has been teaching English Composition and American Literature for nearly twenty years, since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1992, at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, VA. Having helped more than 3,000 students at Reynolds make the transition into college-level thinking and writing, like most any teaching veteran, he developed a few ideas that aren’t adequately represented or played out in the array of traditional textbooks that are currently available. Miles has been a department chair, administered dual enrollment programs in area high schools, helped to develop learning communities linking courses across disciplines, and made articulations with four-year colleges and universities, so he brings some knowledge and experience of how individual disciplines and curricular levels fit together – and more important, how they don’t. Even though he has had a heavy teaching load (three to five writing courses a semester), he has managed to publish a fair amount on composition in edited book collections and journals like College English and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
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